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Limited edition artwork on museum-quality Hahnemühle FineArt Paper, signed and numbered. Comes with a signed and numbered certificate of authenticity.

60cm x 80cm with 5cm Passepartout - Limited edition of 5
90cm x 120cm with 10cm Passepartout - Limited edition of 5

"What is reality?" is a series created in March - June 2018.

After reading the two books "A brief history of time" and "The grand design" by Stephen Hawking I was inspired by the physical insights and the way he explains them. I created a surrealistic series of images, where every image belongs to another theses of one of Hawking's books. The results were 15 surreal photographs, where every single one stands as an artwork on its own but still refer to a physical aspect.

This image was inspired by Stephen Hawking‘s thesis about the distortion of reality:

"Few years ago the city council of Monza, Italy,
barred pet owners from keeping goldfish in curved
goldfish bowls. The measure’s sponsor explained
the measure in part by saying that it is cruel to
keep a fish in a bowl with curved sides because,
gazing out, the fish would have a distorted view
of reality. But how do we know we have the true,
undistorted picture of reality? Might not we ourselves
also be inside some big goldfish bowl and
have our vision distorted by an enormous lens?
The goldfish’s picture of reality is different from
ours, but can we be sure it is less real?"

Stephen Hawking, „The grand design“, 2010, p.37

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Hahnemühle FineArt Paper

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